Sing Along "Evita"

[jimnysf]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 2:08am

In San Franciso...

May 26–29
Sing-a-long Evita
F, M: 8p; Sa, Su: 3p, 8p Directed by Alan Parker Cast: Madonna, Antonio Bandaras, Jonathan Pryce 1996, 134 min (not including pre-show), ‘SCOPE

This interactive presentation of the 1996 film has been customized with on-screen lyrics for all the songs so that audiences can sing along with stars Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce in singing the songs from the film!

Hosts Laurie Bushman & Joe Collins will introduce each performance and warm up the audiences’ vocal chords to sing such favorites as “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”, “Oh What A Circus”, “Another Suitcase In Another Hall” and other snappy Lloyd Webber-Rice tunes. In addition to belting out the tunes, audience members can add to the fun by dressing up as a favorite character from the film, with prizes to be awarded for the best costumes at each performance. This is a super rare engagement, so don’t miss it!

Tickets are available on www.ticketweb.com $15 adult, $10 senior/child

http://www.thecastrotheatre.com/p-list.html

[respeck]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 4:11am

Good thing it's such a hummable score that's very easy to sing.

[Claire2141]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 7:17am

At least ther version of 'Don't Cry for Me' and well all of Ava's songs are lowerd on the film for Madonna to sing....

[singingwendy]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 7:58am

"Good thing it's such a hummable score that's very easy to sing."


Gee..I'm working on this show right now, and that's one of the last phrases I'd use to describe it. Sure, some of the major parts aren't that awful, I'm just picturing what 100 people might do to the "Requiem for Eva" or "A New Argentina" with the ridiculous high notes and dissonances, or "And the Money Kept Rolling In", which is in 7!

It's just a bit more difficult than say "Wizard of Oz" or "Sound of Music" and wouldn't be my first choice for a sing-a-long show! Even "Joseph" would be a better choice!

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 11:45am

$15 bucks? I dont think so.

[timote316]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 12:16pm

I'll stay at home and sing along myself....... which I do......

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 12:21pm

I wonder if I can get Patti LuPone to go with me. Sit her in the back of the theater and let her belt out those great notes "He supports you, for he loves you..."

[jimnysf]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 1:39pm

"I'll stay at home and sing along myself"

I agree 100%! I just don't know what the attraction is for these "sing alongs". I wish they would just show the film the way it was meant to be seen. Sing along at home or in a bar but at the movies? Oy! So far in SF we have has sing along versions of "Sound of Music", "Mary Poppins", "The Wizard of Oz", "Can't Stop The Music" and now this. I guess people must be supporting these things or they wouldn't keep putting them on. I don't want to pay $15 or more to hear a bunch of off key singers dressed up in various costumes but that's just me.

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 1:43pm

Finally! An excuse to wear my Che Guevara T-shirt without looking like an idiotic trend-follower. I want to play the guy who's still called an admiral even though he gave up the sea long ago.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 1:49pm

I think this would actually get pretty boring - the last third of EVITA is kind of somber for a sing along and not campy enough to really be "fun"

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 1:52pm

Well, the Sound of Music tix were $25.00 - and the others in that lot were all fundraisers for local Breast Cancer and AIDS foundations. This sing along seems to be some private sponsor who has rented the theater for their event and is not a fundraiser.

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 1:56pm

Well, at least we know what it will sound like.

I get out here, Buenos Aires. Stand back (incomprehensible, muddled singing) star quality. (mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter) overdo me.

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 1:58pm

And that's from the drugged out divas in the balcony! lol.

[ThePinballWizard]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 2:02pm

Can you imagine? Everyone singing Eva's Lament all together at the end and everyone dying? Talk about not fun at all, it would just become very very campy. What's next?


THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA - SING ALONG!

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/10/06 at 2:07pm

Sing along to the tunes of Arnold Schonberg!